#tresor club

[undergroundrockpress]

Tresor Club, Berlin (1990s)

[iamlisteningto]

Tresor’s 030313

[rsadejournal]

TRESOR BERLIN

I think I'll start logging the various clubs that I have either been to and adored, or clubs that I really want to visit in the future.

I don't know if I'll be able to return to Berlin in the next few years or not, but I'm very happy to say that I went to Tresor more than once. The location is unforgettable and the atmosphere is pure adrenaline.

[ghostsslutss]

welcome to my bar. whatcha ya feeling tonight? vodka? wine? or just apple juice. look at the menu and place ur order in the inbox.

credits to @bunnys-kisses x

𝐖𝐇𝐎𝐒 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔?

lando norris

max verstappen

fernando alonso

charles leclerc

carlos sainz

alex albon

franco colapinto

lewis hamilton

george rusell

ollie bearmen

arthur leclerc

joost klein

ski aggu

reece welsh

jordan riki

simon ghost riley

john mctavish

phillip graves

alejandro ganarcho

jude belligham

neymar jr

matt murdock

jason todd pop

nightwing

moon knight

vladimir makarov

toto wolf

homelander

billy butcher

the deep

a train

konig

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐊 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐈𝐂𝐄

vodka soda - “your boyfriend wont fuck you like this”

rum and coke - “hm what was that again? speak up little one

gin and tonic - “such a good girl. aren’t you. my pretty little puppy.”

whiskey sour - “{dirty talk in their language}”

margarita - “remember, I am in complete control. your pleasure and pain are mine to give.”

mojito - “please ive been a good boy..”

long island iced tea - “fuck your going to get us caught one day aren’t you.”

tequila sunrise - “let me take care of you, let me lead, and you'll enjoy the ride.”

martini - “whos daddy’s little slut?”

cosmopolitan - “beautiful , beautiful thing aren’t you.”

daiquiri - “shut it- shut up.”

piña colada - “be quiet they will hear us.”

old fashioned - “wonder what your father think about this.”

negroni - “I'll do anything to please you, master. Just tell me what you want.”

aperol spritz - “you will address me as 'Sir' or 'Master'. is that clear?”

moscow mule - “you'll wear this collar as a symbol of your submission to me.”

paloma - “tell me your safe word, pet. I need to know your limits.”

mai tai - “thank you for the punishment. I needed it.”

amaretto sour - “please.. just let me cum.”

caipirinha - “oh fuck , your driving me crazy.”

𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁?

fabric (loss of virginity)

berghain (pregancy)

space (sugar daddy au)

hï ibiza (semi to public sex)

ministry of sound (enemies to lovers)

pacha (cheating)

privilege (dom x sub)

dc10 (intoxicated sex)

amnesia (university au)

printworks (alternative au)

output (age gap)

watergate (unprotected sex)

zouk (omegaverse)

exchange la (recording)

the warehouse project (phone sex)

studio 338 (pet play)

kitkatclub (cnc)

marquee (vanilla)

cavo paradiso (car sex)

liv (dirty talk)

avant gardner (gentle sex)

warung beach club (rough sex)

drai’s (mean!drink)

tunnel (aftercare)

rex club (size kink)

cielo (doggy style)

sub club (breeding kink)

egg london (cock warming)

sound nightclub (mafia au)

tresor (dumbfication)

𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐒?

fries (character x character x you)

onion rings (creator picks kinks: may be dead dove)

mozzarella sticks (creator chooses drink and club)

chips and salsa (extra spicy smut)

guacamole (more comforting smut)

[legallybrunettedotcom]

Heyy may I ask which documentaries on various club scenes you've been watching? Really interested in the topic :)

Hey, for sure! I'll link them all. Some of these are about clubbing, and some are more about electronic music, but understanding electronic music is essential for understanding clubbing. So I'm like really obsessed with the Hacienda, which was this big Manchester nightclub in the 80s during the Madchester era, acid house boom. You got this BBC documentary (The Hacienda - The Club that Shook Britain) and also a 1990 doc on Madchester that's a nice little introduction. One of my favourite youtube channels is Trash Theory, they did a great video on Madchester and also New Order's Blue Monday, which is relevant bc New Order basically financed the club so maybe that'll interest you as well. There's also Peter Hook's book about it that I actually still haven't read but it's next up on my to read list. I would also recommend the movie 24 Hour Party People from 2002 that I really love. I'm linking everything I've seen, some acid house, raving, disco, house, techno etc. docs, video essays, other videos and so on. I think a good start, and then from here you'll find more stuff :)

Everybody In The Place: An Incomplete History Of Britain 1984-1992 by Jeremy Deller

The Chemical Generation

Acid House 1988

The Summer Of Rave 1989

Trailblazers: Acid House

Dance Britannia - Acid House

BBC Everyman - E is for Ecstasy - Rave Documentary 1992

The Rave Years - With Keith Flint & Richard Russell

I Was There When House Took Over the World

How House Music Was Born

Pump up the volume: A history of House music

Maestro Documentary - The History of the Paradise Garage

What is House? An Insider's Look at Dance Music - 1991

The Story of When House Music Went Global

When Disco Ruled the World BBC

When Disco Ruled the World VH1

Modulations - Cinema for the Ear

Better Days: The Story of UK Rave

Synth Britannia

We call it techno! A documentary about Germany’s early Techno scene and culture

Sound of Berlin Documentary

Sub Berlin - The Story of Tresor

And then there's also a bunch of real footage you can find on youtube by just typing 80s clubbing or sth like that and it's just so fun.

[chevvy-yates]

RYDER’s INVOLVEMENT

Garnet and Ryder are old chooms. They've known each other since Ryder attended one of his first underground raves Night City had to offer: an event at Maelstrom’s Totentanz where he met Falco in the crowd and came into a chatter that resulted into a deep friendship.

Both young men noticed fast, that NUSA techno(ise) differs very much from the one in their home country Germany. So instead of complaining about how bad NUSA raves were, they sat down and developed Garnet’s idea together: the concept of HELL BUNKER and the birth of Chrome Chamber Rave. Garnet may be the founder of it all and came around with the concept but without Ryder’s help he wouldn’t have been able to put everything into action. Ryder had different connections in the city that would help them find a place and where to get helping hands for actually creating Garnet’s vision. Ryder has an eye for neat design and together with Garnet’s business know-how they started the project. Garnet also suggested Ryder to be co-owner, but Ryder declined as he has too much work to do already as a merc but he will become co-owner later when he can finally put his merc job aside after a last great mission. Nonetheless Ryder continued to help Falco to get CCR known in Night City by creating flyers and posting on his socials until it grew quite known already by 2075. Ryder also used to work as a bouncer in the beginning as well and still offers to do it when the club appears to be understaffed. In return he doesn’t have to pay for entering and friends of his always get in for free as well.

To give you a better imagination of what HELL BUNKER might look like, here are two 3-min videos of the Berliner Techno Club 'TRESOR' in its previous¹ and newest form², that shows how Garnet's location might look like – at least the base of it.

I can recommend watching this over an hour documentation if your are interested), This is literally the underground bunker style I imagine for Garnet's club. —

¹ First video is from the old club that got deconstructed in 2005. It has a long history together with techno subculture after the Berlin wall fell. This is literally the underground bunker style I imagine for Garnet's club. ² The second video seems to be of its current location, a big hall and/or rooms within a heat and power plant, that shows a part of it used in the underground for some parties.

[kerubimcrepin]

Liveblog 5: many words much analysis

His favorite parenting technique: Bullshitting

Yet again, we have the tenets of Lou theorizing reiterated here by Kerubim and Simone, as well as this flashback:

She left sad, and unlike many other times, without any anger for Kerubim.

She left Luis with him to watch over him.

She also left Luis because he couldn't go with her, but that could mean many things.

She left after Ecaflip City, obviously, and at that time, their relationship seemed the healthiest. (Well, as healthy as it could be.)

Unlike all the other times, Kerubim didn't go searching for her. It seems this separation was final in a way no other was, and there had to be a reason that he didn't go and try to make up. An unsolvable issue.

Both Luis and Kerubim blame Kerubim, and the first one uses this to make the second one angry.

Adieu, translated here as Farewell, is a word used for when you never expect to see one another ever again.

And sure, Luis really hated that. To the point of not allowing anyone to clean him ever again.

And yet...

That's what I thought you'd say, you lying asshole. In this liveblog, so far, I had taken a stance against referencing future episodes, but I feel the need to pinpoint this now:

Aux Tresors De Kerubim is a show that will lie, cheat, and deceive you. A show that is incredibly transparent about being at least a little bit, but an in-universe fiction.

Kerubim Crepin is a man who has mastered the art of not really lying, but, more-so, fudging the situation. Usually for the better.

And, as seen from this screenshot of the shop as it was two years before Joris was born, sometimes, for the worse.

Kerubim had many ways to solve his situation — convince Luis to let him clean once in a while via the use of psychic warfare, find a different house, or clean while Luis was sleeping, which Luis canonically does, like Kerubim will later do, after Simone is gone, because unlike her, he's not good at not pissing Luis off.

Or, perhaps, he could have continued doing whatever maintenance he was doing, during the time Atcham showed up and tried to boil him in a sauna. Because back then, Luis was allowing him to clean the house. Just food for thought!

Even Luis doesn't really like the situation they're in.

So, letting himself and their home go, never trying to get them out of this situation, — are both his active failings as a parent, not something he passively went through.

There is absolutely no excusing the way he raised Joris.

So yeah. I will just have to make these two into soup.

The thing is, his lying doesn't come from malice at all.

Kerubim hates disappointing people or appearing weak, because, as we'll see, from his personal experience, relationships just don't end well if you present your authentic self without thinking, or just don't lie well enough. He will keep lying in even the most dire circumstances, because not being good enough is the worst sin he could partake in.

He doesn't really have a self-esteem, or a way to like himself, without outside validation, because of the sheer brainrotting trauma of his childhood and his relationship with Ecaflip. And it just so happens, that being a parent is having a little validation machine running around... As long as the child believes he is competent and an indisputable authority, that is.

Which Joris will, one day, realize, just isn't true.

(hint: before the end of Aux Tresors, but fully set in stone in the movie.)

.......yeah to end it on a funnier note, i really do think Kerubim Crepin shouldn't have been at the club.

he should have been getting therapy. he should have been doing inner child healing. he should have been researching coping mechanisms for cluster b personality disorders, of which he has 2. Imagine having a kid instead of therapy.

Choosing beggar Keke!

If they ever make a second Dofus movie via crowdfunding, I will enshrimpify myself. I think she would destroy Bakara's cringe teenager self. I think Bakara would be jealous of her and Joris's aunt-nephew relationship.

...Yeah I love Bakara and Simone a lot. How could you tell?

Some canonical info on Luis's cleaning protocols.

When Kerubim thinks things are going bad, it's "It'll be ok! Don't worry! We can make it!" When Kerubim is suffering through it, it's "I don't know. Don't ask me. I don't know. Probably. Not a good situation." But when Kerubim truly loses all hope, it's "THIS IS ALL MY FAULT, AND I FAILED YOU, AND I'M AWFUL, AND I'M NOTHING, and it's OVER, and we are going to DIE."

A very helpful thing to keep in mind, to see how distraught he is during various events.

He's good at putting on a casual front while under stress, but it means that when he cracks, his fears burst out like an ocean and take him out of the commission entirely.

It's both a character flaw, and a strength of his, allowing him to not lose hope even at the worst times / help others not feel as distraught. We will see this in some significant, albeit very subtle, portrayals of his character in the Wakfu OVA, as well as the ease with which he takes control of dangerous situations.

Him being insecure and a liar never really changes, but he really does do it all out of love.

One of the most significant lines of this show. It appears both in the second episode, and second-to last episode, expressing one of the main themes of the show: the uneven, often clumsy and painful, nature of love and family. From a chance meeting that doesn't go the best, like here, to, well... the way it's used later the second time.

Kerubim's musings on items in this scene introduce the other theme: Stagnation, progress, and memory. In his opinion, it is only natural for artefacts to pass through different hands, instead of being locked up in a vault. Yet, Kerubim himself is stuck in this shop, collecting dust, being a subpar parent to his son, and never moving on from a multitude of painful break-ups that happened decades ago.

Joris's recitation of his words introduces his, for now, unwavering belief in his papycha. Which makes Kerubim's insecure self feel very giddy and loved.

Then, Simone kicking them out promptly introduces the theme of her being literally the best.

It must feel nice for Joris to see their home look good for the first time in his life. As sad as it is, I am very happy for him. The way he begins running around the house, looking at everything, while Kerubim is walking around in a literal daze, is just so adorable. Makes me even forget I want to make his dad into soup, for a little bit.

This brings us to a close with episode 2. Here's to more insane posts to come.

[official-die-hauptstadt]

Hallo mal and die Berliner die sich vielleicht mit der ClubSzene hier auskennen,

@lightcaughtinaprism fragt mal

"Ich würde gerne mal nach Berlin wegen der Clubszene, weil hier bei mir nix abgeht und mich das Raver etwas bestürzt. Aber vor allem wollte ich nach Berlin wegen des Studiums, da Berlin viel mehr Angebote hat als mein Umkreis hier. [...] Was ich bisher gehört hab waren Wilde Renate, Tresor, Sisyphos, About Blank und KitKat. Suche aber eher nach was, was nicht alle so unbedingt kennen und wo die Türpolitik nicht so streng ist und man immer schwarz oder Fetischklamotten tragen muss."

Könnt ihr da vielleicht ein bisschen weiterhelfen?

Also Clubs die Techno und Trance musik haben, oder sonst generell irgendwelche Clubs die vielleicht nicht ganz so bekannt sind?

Ich kenne mich da leider überhaupt nicht aus

[randomvarious]

1990s German Techno Playlist (YouTube)

Started putting together a small playlist of some of my personal 90s German techno favorites for you all to enjoy for this week 😎. It's not definitive by any means, but with this first iteration, I think this thing still presents a pretty nice range of different types of techno, from the deep and rumbling, hypnotic basement kind to the main-room-of-the-club floor-stomping kind 😤. And despite the fact that most of these selections come from a small handful of Germany's most well-established dance and techno labels—Harthouse, Tresor, and the qualitative-over-quantitative Chain Reaction—I'd say that, given the YouTube play counts for a lot of these tracks, that most of them are a tad bit obscure too 👍.

Ich und meine buddies vibing to ze German 90s tekno

But while almost all of these tunes are by German acts that were released by German labels, the track that we happen to kick off with here, an eleven-plus minute piece of acid-drenched sci-fi psychosis from 1993 called "Blanche," by a short-lived duo from Mainz who called themselves Purple Plejade, is not from a German label at all, but is instead from a Dutch label called Djax-Up-Beats. Purple Plejade was made up of a couple notable German techno names in Holger Wick and Thomas P. Heckmann, but the two of them together only put out a couple of 12-inches, and "Blanche" was their first. Now, there's a scratchy ten-minute version of this song that's already on YouTube, that I think was uploaded back when the maximum length of your video could only be ten minutes, and that thing has over 41,000 plays on it. But this *full,* extra-minute-plus affair, as Gott originally intended it to be heard, only has under 11,000 plays across a bunch of different YouTube uploads, by comparison.

Now let's talk about a couple other favorites on here: one floor-stomper and one that's headily sublime. The floor-stomper comes courtesy of Bad Nauheim's Patrick Lindsey, who in 1996 released a 12-inch called The Phat Jive on Harthouse. And the title track on that release is what you get when you pair some melody that's reminiscent of a theme song from one of those syndicated reality court shows that airs on TV in the afternoons with some snaky, beeping synths and smacking four-on-the-floor percussion to then overwhelm it. A unique fucking banger that's sitting at over 1,300 plays.

And for that headily sublime one, which closes us out, we have a tune from Berlin's DisX3, aka Alexander Kowalski, who in 1999 put out a 12-inch on Tresor called Sequenzed_Function E.P., which kicked off its b-side with "Bored Meat." This stunner's loaded up with a fuck-ton of Richter scale-registering drums to form its rhythmic foundation, but where it really kills is with its weakly plonking, contrastingly high-pitched synth melody that gets placed atop of it all, while including a bunch of jingling hi-hats too. Basically, if you really love yourself some techno music, this is a track that should simply pierce your mechanically-made soul 🤤. And it's only been listened to less than ten thousand times on YouTube!

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible:

Purple Plejade - "Blanche" Patrick Lindsey - "Prepare to Jam" Patrick Lindsey - "The Phat Jive" Porter Ricks - "Port of Transition" Alter Ego vs. David Holmes - "The Evil Needle" Pacou - "T.4" Continuous Mode - "Direct Drive Mode 1" DisX3 - "The Wide Theatre" DisX3 - "Bored Meat"

And this playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So with the introduction of this playlist, we start out with a total of ten songs that run for 68 minutes. Altogether, a good and eclectic clip of stuff here to get us started that's not very well known.

And next week we'll be staying put in Germany, but we'll be getting into some much chillier stuff! 🥶

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

[transgenderer]

Post berghain entry goals?

uh. i mean drink and dance yeah? i mean. obviously talking to strangers would be cool but im not great at that. i did some pondering and i think tonight im actually gonna do tresor or watergate (i feel like tresor is cooler but watergate is more novel) in the name of novelty and then try berghain tomorrow night. its so annoying theres only one night a weekend i can attempt entry into the actual club. i mean. i could attempt sunday but i have meetings on mondays

[iamlisteningto]

Cybotron’s Parallel Shift

[idiotensicher]

FIRST DATES OF OUR 2023 EVRO TOUR!!! TBC dates are being discussed/worked out! TBA: BOOK US! WE NEED HELP for the TBA dates: 10.04 mon Bayern (Regensburg/Passau last resort Nurnberg), 12.04 wed Vienna or Bratislava 18.04 tue AUSTRIA (Salzburg, Innsbruck, Villach) 20.04 thu Augsburg or Ulm, or Stuttgart (even Ingolstadt) 21.04 fri Stuttgart/Tubingen or Basel or Winthertur HELP US and we bring the best we can in your favorite hole under ground! 17.03 Fri Wroclaw, PL - OCSK Postój 18.03 Sat Brno, CZ - Sibiř 19.03 Sun Prague, CZ - Eternia 20.03 Mon Dresden, DE - TBC 01.04 Sat Berlin, DE - Køpi Teknokeller RELEASE PARTY OF OUR NEW SPLIT WITH Uraño 07.04 Fri Berlin, DE - Villa Kuriosum 08.04 Sat Leipzig, DE - Hitness Club 09.04 Sun Budweis, CZ - Svetadilna 10.04 Mon TBA 11.04 Tue Linz, AT - Tresor 12.04 Wed TBA HELP 13.04 Thu Budapest, HU - Gólya 14.04 Fri Graz, AT - FORUM STADTPARK 15.04 Sat Koper, SI - Skladišče Libertas 16.04 Sun Ljubljana, SI - PLAC 17.04 Mon Trbovlje, SI - TBC 18.04 Tue TBA 19.04 Wed Munich, DE - HALLE 6 20.04 Thu TBA 21.04 Fri TBA 22.04 Sat Zurich, CH - Umbo 23.04 Sun Lausanne, CH, TBC 24.04 Mon Geneve, CH - TBC 25.04 Tue Lyon, FR - Grrrnd Zero 26.04 Wed Belfort, FR - TBC 27.04 Thu Nancy, FR - MJC Lillebonne 28.04 Fri TBA 29.04 Sat Den Haag, NL - TBC 30.04 Sun Amsterdam, NL - TBC 13.07-16.07 Jablonica, SK - Hradby Samoty XII

[oathdublin]

Now Playing | The Club That Reunited Berlin (Resident Advisor)

Tresor: A Story Of Survival [RA]

"And by chance, a friend told me about this space, an old power plant in East Berlin. I came in and, pffttt... I was shocked, I was scared, I came up the stairs, there were no gutters, nothing, it was dangerous, it was really dark and cold. But somehow I said wow... the walls started talking to me... This space has so much potential."

As the wall fell and Berlin became one, something special was happening underground. Built on the foundations of human connection and now 32 years after its conception in 1991, Tresor remains one of the most important techno institutions on the planet.

Join Dimitri Hegeman in conversation with Resident Advisor and discover how dancing dissolved the final degree of separation in the Techno capital.

Watch

[logi1974]

Südafrika 2022/23 - Tag 14

Herrschaften und Oukies!

Inzwischen hat sich unsere innere Uhr auf das frühe Aufstehen eingestellt und wir werden um 6 Uhr wach.

Und nach einem kurzen Blick aus dem Fenster sind wir froh, dass wir heute weiter fahren dürfen.

Was für ein Kontrast zu den letzten zwei Tagen.

Eine dicke Regenwolke hat es sich hier zwischen den Bergen gemütlich gemacht. Es regnet so vor sich hin und selbst den Pavianen ist die Lust auf die leckeren Litschis vergangen.

Unser heutiges Frühstück besteht mehr oder weniger aus “Leftovers” und steht unter dem Motto: Alles, was weg muss.

Der Überreste in unserem Kühlschrank sind heute Morgen sehr übersichtlich. Wir haben nämlich nichts weiter eingekauft, da wir in den nächsten 4 Tagen keine Selbstverpfleger sein werden.

Für uns geht es nämlich heute wieder in die fabelhafte Raptor Retreat Game Lodge. Dort hatten wir uns im Januar extrem wohl gefühlt und direkt wieder gebucht.

Inzwischen war unser halber Bekanntenkreis der “positiv Afrikabekloppten” dort zu Gast - nachdem wir diese Unterkunft in den höchsten Tönen gelobt hatten. 

Der liebe Norbert war sogar so freundlich und brachte uns im September unsere Wildkamera mit nach Deutschland. Diese blieb dort im Januar versehentlich hängen. 

Keith hatte sie aber sofort nach unserer Abreise entdeckt, leider waren wir da schon auf halben Wege in Richtung Johannesburg unterwegs. Sharmaine packte sie dann in den Tresor, so lange, bis jemand aus dem Namibia Forum dort auftauchen würde und sie für uns mitnimmt.

Mitte des Jahres bekamen wir von Sharmaine dann die Anfrage, ob wir (gegen ein Upgrade mit inkludierter Verpflegung) mit einem Wechsel des Chalets einverstanden wären. 

Für die nebeneinander liegenden Hippochalet und Rhinochalet gab es eine Anfrage einer größeren Gruppe, für die die separate Lage mit dem großen Pool und der großen Boma mit dem Braaiplatz natürlich ideal ist, um ungestört zu urlauben.

Also, gesagt, getan und wir stimmten der Offerte zu. So kommt es, dass wir jetzt die Mahlzeiten serviert bekommen und für die nächsten Tage nicht mehr einkaufen müssen.

Wir verlassen das Tshivhase Nature Reserve um Schlag 9 Uhr und biegen zunächst wieder auf die R 524 ein.

Diese führt uns kurze Zeit später durch eine endlose Reihe von Siedlungen, die aus mal mehr, mal weniger ärmlichen Behausungen bestehen.

Eines haben sie aber alle gemeinsam: totale Überbevölkerung und Müll. 

Wir fragen uns, wie soll das Land in Zukunft aussehen? Allein in den letzten 10 Jahren ist die Bevölkerung um schlappe 10 Millionen Menschen (offiziell) angewachsen - inoffiziell sollen es sogar 20 Millionen sein.

Wer sich kein Sammeltaxi leisten kann, geht eben zu Fuß oder versucht sein Glück als Anhalter.

Wer Geld hat zeigt es auch gerne: hier der Harley Club beim Feiertagsausflug.

Ab der R 529 wir es wieder ländlich-idyllisch. Da trügt aber auch der Schein, denn Monokulturen prägen das Land.

Kilometer um Kilometer ziehen sich die Frucht-Plantagen des Dole Konzerns bis in die Gegend von Gravelotte.

Die Plantagen benötigen natürlich Wasser, viel Wasser.

Wir biegen in einen Feldweg ab, da dort freundlicherweise gerade das Tor offen steht und schauen uns das Bewässerungssystem an.

Die R 71 bringt uns dann nach Gravelotte. Nein, nicht nach Frankreich, in die Mosel Region. Hier gibt es nämlich auch ein Gravelotte und tatsächlich gibt es einen historischen Zusammenhang. Die Geschichte des südafrikanischen Namensvetters lässt sich bis zur Schlacht von Gravelotte während des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges (1870–1871) zurückverfolgen. 

Der preußische Dragoner Fritz Reuter gab sich selbst ein Versprechen, wenn er die Schlacht überlebt, würde er Missionar werden. Er überlebte die Schlacht tatsächlich und wanderte nach Transvaal aus, wo er etwa 10 km nördlich von Duiwelskloof die Missionsstation Medingen gründete. Später kaufte er eine Farm in der Gegend und benannte diese nach der Schlacht von Gravelotte.

Hinter Gravelotte kommt “Game Land”. Hier reiht sich eine Wildfarm an Wildfarm. Game Huntig, Game Breeding, Game Reserve, Game Safaris usw. usw. 

Wir treffen auf die R 40, die nach Phalaborwa, zu den Minen und natürlich zum gleichnamigen Krüger Gate “Phalaborwa Gate” - durch das wir Anfang Januar den Krüger Nationalpark verließen - führt.

Allerdings biegen wir heute schon nach 5 Kilometern zum Nyati Gate ab, dass das Eingangstor zum Balule Game Reserve ist. Balule gehört zum Greater Kruger-Nationalpark und ist dessen westliche Außengrenze.

Weitere 40 Minuten rumpeln wir über die Pisten und das ist gleichzeitig ein erster, kleiner Gamedrive. Dann sind wir wieder da!

Und, wie schon beim letzten Mal, werden wir wieder vom Personal mit Gesang und Tanz begrüßt. 

Damit uns nicht wieder das Gepäck aus den Händen gerissen wird, lassen wir es dieses Mal einfach im Auto und öffnen nur den Kofferraum. Man bringt uns zur Buffalo Suite, die die nächsten Tage unser “Zuhause” sein wird.

Nachdem wir uns häuslich eingerichtet haben installiert Micha unten, an einem Pfad, wieder die Wildkamera. Wahrscheinlich, damit sie wieder dort hängen bleibt ...

Lekker Slaap!

Angie, Micha und der Hasenbär

[justamaddream]

Journal Entry: 06.20.03

Berlin, Germany

I can't believe I'm finally here. The flight from Miami was long, but the excitement kept me awake. I landed in Berlin this morning, and the city already feels like a different world. The air is crisp, and there's an electric vibe that I can't quite put into words.

Tobias, the guy I've been chatting with on the music message board, met me at the airport. He's even cooler in person. We clicked right away, talking about our favorite tracks and the latest in the underground minimal techno scene. He's been super hospitable, showing me around and making sure I feel at home.

We dropped my stuff off at his place, a cozy apartment in Kreuzberg. It's got this artsy, bohemian feel to it, with posters of old techno gigs and vinyl records scattered around. Tobias has a killer setup with his turntables and synthesizers. I can't wait to start making music together. And for myself.

Tonight, we're hitting up Tresor, the legendary club. I've heard so much about it, and I can't wait to experience it firsthand. Tobias says it's the place to be if you're into minimal techno. We're also planning to check out Club der Visionaere and Watergate later this week. The scene here is insane.

I brought my Minidisc and Akai MPC 2000 with me. Tobias is stoked to see what I can create solo. We're already brainstorming ideas for tracks and planning to record some sessions. This trip is going to be epic.

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🌃✨ Berlin Nightlife: Where the Party Never Ends ✨🌃

Berlin isn't just a city—it’s an experience, especially when it comes to nightlife. If you're a night owl or a music lover, this is the place where your party dreams come alive! 🕺🎧

🔊 Why Berlin’s Nightlife is Legendary:

Techno Heaven 🎶 – Berlin is the techno capital of the world. Iconic clubs like Berghain and Tresor are more than just venues; they’re temples for electronic music lovers. The beats are hypnotic, the vibes are intense, and the party goes on until the break of dawn (or later!). 🔥🔊

Eclectic Club Scene 🏙️ – From underground raves in abandoned warehouses to sleek, upscale bars in Mitte, there’s something for every taste. Neighborhoods like Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, and Neukölln are hotspots for late-night (or early morning) adventures. 🌃🍻

Freedom to Express 🖤 – In Berlin, the nightlife is a canvas for self-expression. Dress however you want, dance like no one’s watching, and connect with people from all around the world. The open-minded, diverse crowd makes the experience even more unforgettable. 🌈🕺

Berlin Clubbing Essentials

Be Ready for Long Nights – Berlin clubs are known for their marathon parties. Many places open Friday night and stay buzzing until Monday morning. 🎉🌙

Cash is King – Some clubs are cash-only, so don’t forget to bring enough Euros. 💶

Know the Dress Code – Some places prefer an all-black look or have a “come as you are” vibe. Either way, confidence is key! 😎🖤

If you’re planning a night out, don’t miss the local techno scene, and make sure to keep up with the city’s underground events. Berlin nightlife isn’t just about going out—it’s about diving deep into the city’s heartbeat. 🖤✨